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On 15 December 2013, South Africa held the funeral of Nelson Mandela who led the struggle in defeating apartheid and became the country’s first black president.
His ancestral home in the village of Q…
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Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
In 1983, the disappearance of a teenage girl who was a citizen of Vatican City led to a scandal.
When Pope John Paul II made a public appeal to the people holding Emanuela Orlandi captive, the world t…
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Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova lived through some of the darkest chapters of Soviet history, but never stopped writing even though the communist regime repeatedly tried to silence her. One of …
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Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
In 1998, Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin shocked the nation with a last-minute decision to speak at the reburial of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, 80 years after their murder.
“We must end an age o…
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Murder of the Romanovs
As civil war raged in Russia, on 17 July 1918, the imprisoned royal family were told they were to be taken to a place of refuge.
But the move was a trick and half an hour later Tsar Nicholas II, his w…
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The release of DOOM
In December 1993, the release of a new video game captivated gamers around the world. It was called DOOM.
Set on a Martian military base overrun by zombified soldiers and demons, DOOM saw players tak…
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‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
Between 1976 and 1983 in Argentina, the military ruled the country. Thousands of mainly young, left-wing Argentinians went missing.
Known as 'the disappeared', they were taken to detention centres, s…
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A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
On 21 April 1967, a group of right-wing army officers seized power in Greece to prevent the election of a social democratic government led by veteran politician George Papandreou.
The dictatorship, b…
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Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
In 1945, two Danish scientists opened an institute to study mental illnesses.
In the four decades until it closed, almost 10,000 brains were collected from dead psychiatric patients and stored in pl…
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La Haine: The film that shocked France
In 1993, film director Mathieu Kassovitz started work on what would become a cult cinema classic, La Haine.
La Haine would follow three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the Paris suburb…
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